10: Fall 2007
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Green-bin Delight
After the shops have closed on Mondays and Thursdays, and before the garbage trucks arrive, the graffiti-covered storefronts of Kensington Market take on...
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Going Dutch on bikes
ROTTERDAM, NETHERLANDS
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Fresh green faces
When civil war broke out in Uganda in 1979, Yuga Juma Onziga, his wife, and their five-year-old daughter fled to Sudan. Forced to abandon his uncompleted...
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Eat your park
We often hear about the benefits of growing food in the big city, and about the superior nutrition provided by doing so organically. But we don't...
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You are where you eat
One of the best things about living in Toronto is the food. The apartment I share with my partner in Riverdale is a two minute walk away from...
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A prescription for congestion?
Nobody likes a traffic jam. Cities around the world have struggled to alleviate gridlock, with varying degrees of success. London, England and Stockholm...
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Rambling the length of Queen Street
In anticipation of the Walk 21 conference on all things pedestrian, Spacing organized the Great Queen Street Psychogeographic Walk. We began at the Queen...
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The Humber’s coolest restroom
The bike and pedestrian trails at the mouth of the Humber River tour through a varied landscape. One minute the riverside paths will take you under an...
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Tree pit liberation
In the middle of the summer, at the corner of Oxford and Spadina (on the east side of Kensington Market) the community group Streets Are For People (SAFP...
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Hawkeye for the pest guy
George Costanza on the TV show Seinfeld has a deal with the pigeons: they get out of his way, he looks the other way on statue defecation. Torontonians...
By Matthew Blackett